Ashes and Gasoline

You packed your words like loaded shells
Left 'em scattered on the stairs I fell
I swept the house but found no peace
Just broken frames and shattered speech

I kept your dress, the one you wore
The night you said you wanted more
Now it hangs like guilt from that old beam
Smells like ashes and gasoline

Ashes and gasoline
That's what our love turned out to mean
You gave the spark, I fed the flame
We both watched it burn in shame
Some things die, some things explode
And some just haunt the empty road
Ashes and gasoline and me

I lit the porch with one last match
No turning back, no looking back
The smoke don't choke like silence did
And fire don't lie like promises hid

You took the prayers, I took the sin
We both knew hell was closing in
Now all that's left of you and me
Is in the wind, wild and free

Ashes and gasoline
Our story soaked in kerosene
The final page was set to blaze
And I still walk through phantom flames
No water left, no in-between
Just ashes and gasoline

So if they ask what happened here
Tell 'em love and hate got too near
And what survived was not too clean
Just ashes, and gasoline